Coventry Bears stormed to the top of the rugby league TotalRL.com Conference table with a crushing 80-4 win over outclassed Wolverhampton Wizards at Coundon Road.

Exciting Bears scrum-half Joe Smith went over for a try from almost the first attack of the match.

And when captain Alan Robinson scored a near-identical try under the posts four minutes later the writing was on the wall for the outgunned visitors as Bears continued their runaway start to the new season.

Second row John Nicholls broke through from 15 metres out to score the third try after only 10 minutes before Alex van der Walt intercepted a loose pass, ran 40 metres and passed to Andy Lewis who scored on the left.

Further tries by Steve Campton, Matty Allsopp, Carl Southwell and Ross Jackson followed and two minutes from half-time Rich Davies threw an outrageous dummy to ease through under the posts for a 42-0 scoreline.

It was not surprising that the Bears lost some of their edge after the break but tries by Lewis, Campton, Alex Brown, Francis Slater and Tom Shaw extended their lead before Wolverhampton were rewarded for their spirit when Garry Morgan scored a consolation try in the right corner.

Campton completed his hat trick of tries shortly before the final whistle and Davies produced another dummy that wrong-footed the Wizards defence to again put him in under the posts.

The conversions were shared between Shaw (3), van der Walt (2), Nicholls, Lewis and Ian McGregor while Jackson was named Jumpin Jaks man-of-the-match.